Folder Filters

Folder filters enable you to filter specific folders during a search operation, i.e. exclude them from the search operation.

Filter Method

The filtering methods inclusive and exclusive enable you to determine how filter texts are to be applied during a search operation.

Inclusive
Only folders matching an activated filter text are included during a search operation. Example: If you specify the filter text "Test" only folders named 'Test' are searched during a search operation. All other folders are filtered (= excluded) from the copy operation.
Exclusive
All the folders matching a filter text are excluded from the search operation. Example: If you specify the filter text "Test", all folders named 'Test' and their subfolders are filtered, i.e. excluded from the search operation.

Filter List

The filter list contains all the filter texts set up for folders. Each filter text can be enabled or disabled for a copy operation via its checkbox. Click on the button Folder Filters at the toolbar to open a menu to add new filters. Right-click an item at the filter list to edit or remove a filter.

Filter Texts

Comparisons using a filter text are always done using the folder name. When a filter text contains a backslash (\) comparison is made with the entire path of the current folder. Filters are not case-sensitive, meaning no distinction is made between uppercasing and lowercasing when during comparisons. The filter text may contain various wildcards and Windows environment variables. You can specify multiple folder filters using the special character '|' as a separator.

Examples:

C:\Windows
C:\Prog*
temp??
C:\users\%USERNAME%
C:\Windows|C:\Users|C:\Temp

Options

Ignore wildcards in filter text (treat like normal text)

This causes the characters of wildcards in a filter text to be treated as normal text.

Make filtering case-sensitive

This makes filtering distinguish between uppercasing and lowercasing when comparing folder names.

Don't filter subfolders

This option doesn't have any effect unless you are using the inclusive filter method and filter the entire path. Then all subfolders are taken into consideration during a search operation and aren't excluded.